Curatio promises to matchmake people living with the same health conditions

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Anyone going through a health crisis or living with a chronic circumstance is familiar with the same struggle: you want to find people who understand what’s going on in their own lives, but to find those people, you’d likely have to share information about your health more broadly than is comfortable.

Curatio is trying to solve both those problems. The social app promises to be a combination of Tinder and Facebook for healthand a lane to combat the isolation and stigma that can come with health issues.

“It’s a pain degree every single person has at some point in “peoples lives”, for themselves or for a family member or friend, ” said Curatio founder Lynda Ganzert-Brown. “If you’re mid-stride in your career, you’re probably not going to go onto a social media platform and suppose, ‘I just got diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.’ It’s not the same type of social suffer as looking for a restaurant recommendation.”

Curatio firstly launched through a startup tournament in 2013 and revamped in past weeks to provide 10 different health communities. The app acts like an online dating app to connect you with people who have similar health suffers, down to exactly which symptoms they’re experiencing. Then, anyone you connect with becomes part of your network to create a news feed that’s like a HIP-AAcompliant version of Facebook.

“It’s a agony point every single person has at some phase in their lives.”

Since health information is involved, privacy is key. Anything you share only goes to people you’ve approved to see it. And you can’t be totally anonymous, but you don’t have to use your real identity.

There’s likewise an AI concierge to answer questions about health information materials and a area for personal disease management and health tracking. Curatio likewise licenses its engineering to other health providers and communities for their own social tools.

So there are a lot of moving components, specially when you consider that there are various different communities on Curatio: menopause, traumatic brain injury, heart disease, the blood malady Thalassemia, Crohn’s disease and colitis, Type 1 diabetes, and their home communities for caregivers.

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Shirley Weir founded the Facebook group Menopause Chicks, which transmitted their community over to Curatio.

“If somebody comes to my community[ on Facebook] and mentions, ‘I’m losing fuzz, ‘ I can give them information on experts or journals, ” Weir replied. “It’s different to announce, ‘Talk to these four women who also experienced hair loss.'”

Curatio users can be members of multiple communities. Many people in its menopause community, whose average members are women in their late 40 s, are often dealing with other health conditions, especially as caregivers, Weir said.

Ganzert-Brown declined to provider user metrics, but told Curatio users are now in 31 countries.